Maharashtra government on Wednesday transferred Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh for ‘mishandling’ the bomb scare outside Mukesh Ambani’s residence.

Senior IPS officer Hemant Nagrale will be the new Mumbai Police Commissioner. Nagrale already holds charge of Maharashtra Director General of Police (DGP). Singh has been posted to the state Home Guard, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh announced on Twitter.

Deshmukh had met Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray earlier in the day amid speculation in media over Singhs handling of the Sachin Waze episode.

Waze is at the focus of a probe by the National Investigating Agency in a case related to the recovery of an SUV with explosives near Ambani’s house in Mumbai.

Waze, arrested in the case on March 13 for his alleged role in the crime, was attached to the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) of city police’s crime branch till recently.